On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 22:31 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 22:59 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > > > * Another individual thought that all web authors are stupid for > > wanting to use fancy fonts and that I am wasting my time. (He might > > be right about that last bit... :-P) > > While we're doing asides, that one *does* get right on my nerves. > > If anyone overrides font choices in their browser config and wonders why > an increasing number of sites - inc. github, and the wordpress admin > interface - seem to display weird hieroglyphs all over the place, it's > because of this "clever trick": web designers have decided that it's a > really good idea to abuse font rendering engines as a way to render > icons, and starting shipping icons as made-up Unicode codepoints in > their sites' custom fonts. If you override their font choice, then of > course these icons wind up as garbage, because your font does not have > them, because ICONS AREN'T FUCKING TEXT CHARACTERS, web designers. It makes a lot of sense, actually. At least the symbolic icons that have become prevalent in our uis share a lot of characteristics with text, and can benefit from getting the same treatment as glyphs. We've been discussing this as an option for rendering symbolic icons in GTK+ too. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
